Members of Task Force Davao and the Philippine National Police beef up the security outside Mintal Public Cemetery in Tugbok District, Davao City on Monday, Oct. 31. The police also put up an assistance desk along the road. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Rodrigo Valles preps up his daughter’s tomb painting it peach inside the Mintal Public Cemetery before All Saints’ Day. Valles said he makes it appoint to change the color of his daughter’s tomb every year. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Instead of using paintbrush, highschool student Marky, repaints a gravestone with a coin covered in cloth inside the Mintal Public Cemetery. He said it is easier than using a paintbrush. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
“I do this as a pastime because I have nothing to do at home, so I started going with my friends.”
Roberto Longlong’s yearly practice during Undas, or All Saints’ Day is to repaint the tombs of his departed father and grandparents at the Mintal Public Cemetery. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Calling it as “immediate relief” for low wage earners, Jerome Adonis, secretary-general of KMU and convener of the All Workers Unity, said it is high time that a national minimum wage of P750 for workers in the private sector and P16,000 for government workers should be implemented.
Upon his arrival from his three-day visit to Japan, President Rodrigo Duterte described that the relationship of the Philippines and a US’ ally is excellent.
The government cannot yet afford to regularize employees in government who work under contracts of service or job orders.
President Rodrigo Duterte shows on Thursday night, Oct. 27 the Philippines “drug industry”, a compilation of names of personalities involved in drugs. He said the cost of treatment and rehabilitation of the persons on the list could reach P1 trillion. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
He might have promised God in a dream that he will stop cursing, but President Rodrigo Duterte said there is always a time to curse.
